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Injury profiles of road traffic deaths
- Source :
- Accident; analysis and prevention. 39(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- The objective is to describe injuries of road traffic deaths in Barcelona and identify injury profiles by road user type, through a cross-sectional study including road traffic deaths for the period 1997–2004. The data source was the Institut de Medicina Legal de Catalunya. Diagnoses were coded using the International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification, and classified using the Barell Matrix. Of the 719 deaths studied, 45% were pedestrians, 32% two wheel motor vehicle users, and 23% car occupants. The injury profile of the road traffic deaths in Barcelona is internal injuries and fractures to the torso and to the head/neck. This profile is repeated in all the road user groups, although pedestrians present higher frequencies of fractures and contusions to extremities and contusions to the head/neck, and fewer internal torso injuries than car occupants or two wheel motor vehicle users.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Engineering
Adolescent
Poison control
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Walking
Risk Assessment
Occupational safety and health
Transport engineering
Age Distribution
Injury Severity Score
International Classification of Diseases
Injury prevention
medicine
Humans
Sex Distribution
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Child
Road traffic
Road user
Aged
Data source
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Accidents, Traffic
Infant, Newborn
Human factors and ergonomics
Infant
Torso
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Motor Vehicles
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cross-Sectional Studies
Spain
Child, Preschool
Wounds and Injuries
Female
Medical emergency
business
human activities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00014575
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Accident; analysis and prevention
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5a2d8d05f0a72c29cfdff41d7de14c6b